kruker wrote:Was on a flight to SF that got hit by lighting over the Sierras. Saw the bolt touch the plane. Pretty crazy.

Barry Jive wrote:if I can pile on i'm 28 and the first olympics i remember anything from are '92 in Barcelona

WilliamC wrote:I have always avoided Perks of Being a Wallflower mostly because it is called Perks of Being a Wallflower but I decided to watch it because I like Emma Watson. I feel weird that I rewound multiple times trying to figure out if she actually said she needed to do much better if she wanted to attend Penn State main campus. Then I didn't trust my ears so I finally googled it. Not the type of movie I would have expected Penn State to be referenced with NYU and Harvard in the same scene.

azrider wrote:are there any good comic strips out there today? growing up i had the pleasure of enjoying the end of bloom county, calvin and hobbes and the farside. since i haven't gotten the daily paper since 2000, i really haven't searched the comic strip section in years. i'm almost afraid to look and see what is there, when the new characters must be compared to the best comic strip character of all time, bill the cat.

The Dude wrote:that strip, overall, is the worst thing i've ever read

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

azrider wrote:are there any good comic strips out there today? growing up i had the pleasure of enjoying the end of bloom county, calvin and hobbes and the farside. since i haven't gotten the daily paper since 2000, i really haven't searched the comic strip section in years. i'm almost afraid to look and see what is there, when the new characters must be compared to the best comic strip character of all time, bill the cat.

Off the top of my head, a few I like (IOW, make me laugh more than others), in alphabetical order... Drabble, Non Sequitur, Pearls Before Swine.

Phan In Phlorida wrote:Hot Pockets pulled off shelves for possibly containing "diseased and unsound animals”.

(make your own jokes)

Phan In Phlorida wrote:

azrider wrote:are there any good comic strips out there today? growing up i had the pleasure of enjoying the end of bloom county, calvin and hobbes and the farside. since i haven't gotten the daily paper since 2000, i really haven't searched the comic strip section in years. i'm almost afraid to look and see what is there, when the new characters must be compared to the best comic strip character of all time, bill the cat.

Off the top of my head, a few I like (IOW, make me laugh more than others), in alphabetical order... Drabble, Non Sequitur, Pearls Before Swine.

The Dude wrote:lightning just struck outside my house. whole place shook and stuff flew off the window sill. i dont want to fly today

ROXBOROUGH - February 19, 2014 (WPVI) -- As if the snowy winter wasn't enough, today we got even more severe weather. This morning's thunder storm came in with a big boom. And even though the storm was quick, it did leave some damage behind.

Police and Peco responded to the 500 block of Hermit Street in Philadelphia's Roxborough section after many people reported that they saw, heard, and felt an enormous release of energy.

It was around 10:15 a.m. when the witnesses say they first saw a flash then heard an explosion.

"It was really brilliant, like it lit up the sky," said Joe Brach.
Anthony Amadio was sitting at his kitchen table when two windows blew in, cutting his head. In all, more than a dozen of his windows were shattered.

Amadio tells us, "I was in Vietnam in 1969, and it was about like that. I thought I was hit with a rocket& that's how intense the explosion from whatever it was - the lightning, the tree, or the transformer  I'm not sure."

At least eight houses lost windows. At the time of the incident Pat Amadio was few blocks away on Ridge Avenue going to the bank when she looked up.

"It wasn't a bolt, it was a big ball," Pat said, adding the bright ball then just disappeared.

It is still unclear what happened, but one possibility officials are looking into is that lightning may have struck a PECO transformer in the neighborhood, causing the explosion.